Taxi Driver

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    Taxi Driver
    1976

    Synopsis

    A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

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    Cast

    • Robert De NiroTravis Bickle
    • Jodie FosterIris Steensma
    • Cybill ShepherdBetsy
    • Harvey KeitelMatthew "Sport" Higgins
    • Peter BoyleWizard
    • Leonard HarrisSenator Charles Palantine
    • Albert BrooksTom
    • Diahnne AbbottConcession Girl
    • Frank AduAngry Black Man
    • Victor ArgoMelio

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      A brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn't tell us half of what we want to know.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      One of Scorsese's most influential and disturbing films on the big screen. [20th Anniversary Release]
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. [20th Anniversary Release]
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      An undeniably brilliant, nightmarish portrait of one man's personal hell.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      You either love it or you love it; in any case, Martin Scorsese's history-making scald is truly a phenomenon from another day and age.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      It hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. [20th Anniversary Release]
    • 100

      CineVue

      Scorsese’s direction always keeps us uncomfortably close to Travis’ subjectivity, whether we’re prowling night time Manhattan or gazing into a glass of Alka-Seltzer until the whole world disappears into the healing hiss.
    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      Hitchcockian unease permeates the film, but so too does a Godardian use of space and a Bressonian focus on obsession heighten the mounting sense of dread. These elements are groovy for film buffs but are mere icing on the proverbial cake; you don’t need to be in the know to relish Scorsese’s mastery of the form, and what may astonish even more than the creative prowess is how compulsively entertaining the results are.

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